SECTRA, USA, April 16, 2014 - The department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety in Northern Ireland has expanded its PACS contract with Sectra (STO: SECT B), to include digital breast imaging.
The breast screening centers in the region will benefit immediately from the existing centralize...

Healthcare Provider IT Leaders and Professionals are Invited to this Forum
March 5, 2014 - MILWAUKEE, WI - The VNA Institute of Technology invites all healthcare IT professionals to Challenges and Opportunities of Clinical Interoperability, an informative IT symposium in San Francisco, CA on Monday...

Wayne, NJ, December 3, 2013 – Konica Minolta Medical Imaging announced today that its parent company, Konica Minolta, Inc., has signed a business transfer agreement with Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Healthcare) under which the ultrasonic diagnostic equipment business of Panasonic Heal...

USA, October 27, 2013 - There's a way to manage change associated with health IT, healthcare consultant Frank Speidel, M.D., says--eight ways, to be more precise.
Writing at HITConsultant, Speidel, chief medical officer for the Health IT staffing firm Healthcare IT Leaders, identifies what he calls...

Denver, Colorado and Montreal, Canada – September 30, 2013 – Intelerad Medical Systems™, a leader in medical imaging PACS, RIS and workflow solutions, today announced that they have become associate members of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) Foundation, a no...

USA, July 28, 2013 - The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT last week unveiled a report updating its progress on five goals outlined in its Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 2011-2015, published in March 2011 by previous National Coordinator David Blumenthal.
The five stated goals from...

USA, June 23, 2013 - Contrary to what many in the health IT industry think, National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari said he does not see the transition to ICD-10 as disruptive to the Meaningful Use process.
Instead, Mostashari said in a recent interview with Healthcare IT News, he beli...

BARRINGTON, Ill. – June 19, 2013 – GE Healthcare’s excellence in radiology informatics was recently recognized when honored by Frost & Sullivan’s 2013 North American Company of the Year Award in Radiology Informatics.
The award, which was given to GE Healthcare IT, is part of Frost & Sulliv...

The healthcare IT merger and acquisition space will go through heavy consolidation over the next five years, according to Tom O'Connor, managing director at New York-based Berkery Noyes.
In a recent interview with Healthcare Informatics, O'Connor, touting a recently released whitepaper by the inves...